Sometimes the choice is easy. Sometimes the choice is hard. Sometimes the war comes out in our favor. Sometimes not.

But fighting this virus is not a matter of choice. It came here. It set up shop here. It is killing about 2,000 people in America per day.

We know about Donald Trump's penchant for taking total credit for things that have gone/are going well while taking zero responsibility for things that have gone badly.

Just this week, Trump took credit for the economy that was booming before the virus and said that he would rebuild the economy again. At the same time he blamed the Chinese for unleashing the virus on the world telling reporters at the White House, according to The Hill newspaper, he had seen evidence that the virus is tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

For most of April Americans seemed to have treated the stay-at-home rules like sleep away camp. It was a shared adventure about which we Zoomed and FaceBooked with colleagues, family, and friends; we published cute cat and dog photos; traded tips on where we might buy toilet paper; and, studied grocery store parking lots to see if it was safe to go in based on the number of cars.

By the end of April we were tired of the whole thing. We'd lost color war, traded email addresses with our bunkmates, and we are sitting on our duffle bags in the parking lot waiting to load on the busses to take us back to the city.

So to speak.

There is a legitimate question about the rights of citizens to travel about freely and the authority of the Authorities to restrict us from walking down the street or requiring us to wear a mask if we do.

The frustrations are most easily seen at the relatively tiny, but very well covered rallies at several state capital buildings. I think it is safe to say that most of the protesters also believe that stop signs are a violation of their VIII Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment.

I think a lot of COVID fatigue has to with the 30 million people who have lost their regular source of income and are staring at the first-of-the-month bills that are due effective today.

We've been told for years that 40 percent of Americans don't have $400 in the bank to use in case of emergency. They are probably largely the same people who are at least temporarily unemployed.

It is not their fault.

I can work at home. I am writing this on my laptop from my den. If, however, I had a shop that repaired and sold laptops I would have had to close my doors and lay off (or furlough) my staff.

In some states I would have been able to physically turn on the lights starting today, but I would be depending upon people whose bank account (or credit card balance) allowed them to buy a new laptop, or people who were confident enough in the six-foot rule that they would bring their broken laptop into my shop.